Join us at Seattle’s Swedish Club, 1920 Dexter Ave N. , on Tuesday March 20, 2018 to hear about the eventful 2017 field season, the 43rd consecutive year of study of the Black Guillemot colony on Cooper Island, Alaska. Doors open for a reception at 6 pm with a talk starting at 7 pm. The...
Category: 2017 Field Season
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Canary in the Climate Mine: Arctic Seabird’s Future Is on Thin Ice
Oceans Deeply recently had a story about our work and the poor 2017 breeding season after an October interview with George Divoky. Oceans Deeply is part of News Deeply – an “award-winning new media company dedicated to covering the world’s most important and underreported stories.” The story was written by Jessica Leber and illustrated with...
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June 2017 – The Arctic continues to surprise
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. For the past 42 years I have had a front row seat on Cooper Island off northern Alaska studying the Black Guillemot, a high Arctic seabird that is responding to the earlier snow melt and diminishing summer sea ice cover. Early melting...